Swiss Summer School
«Organic Synthesis»
17.-21. August 2025, Haute-Nendaz, Switzerland
Swiss Summer School
«Organic Synthesis» 2025
17.-21. August 2025, Haute-Nendaz
Students' Presentations
Instructions for Presenters
The timeframe for a short communication is fifteen minutes and should include three minutes for Q&A.
Prior to the session, please contact the Session Chair! You are free to use your own laptop. Your presentation can also be copied to the meeting laptop, if you prefer. The presentations will be deleted after the session.
The format for posters should be DIN A0 portrait (118.9 x 84.1cm).
Short Communications Session A
Pownthurai Balasubramaniam, University of Geneva
«Photochemical reductive N-H aziridination using N-aminoacridinium salts as nitrogen source: Synthesis and mechanistic studies»
Georg Berger, University of Zurich
«Synthesis of a π-Extended Perylene Dication Featuring Negatively Curved Seven-Membered Rings»
Wilaiwan Chaikhan, University of Geneva
«Iron-mediated Hydride Hydrogen Atom Transfer (Fe-HAT) for Oxa-spirocycle Formation from Olefins and Enol Ethers»
Ekaterina Frantsuzova, Charles University
«Proangiogenic Agents Unveiled: Synthetic Pathways and Challenges in Prunolactone Chemistry»
Paul Gri, EPFL Lausanne
«Ti(III) reductive electrocyclization of nitrostyrenes»
Short Communications Session B
Anastassia Kraimps, University of Zurich
«Dichalcogenide Fidaxomicin Derivatives to Probe Thiol-Mediated Uptake into Bacteria»
Harry Lecomte, University of Bern
«Electron Donor-Acceptor Complex-Catalyzed Aromatic Nitration: Unveiling the Role of Polymeric Donors»
Leon Rebhan, University of Bern
«Synthesis and Functionalization of Brexazine:
A Chiral Tricyclic Diamine Mimetic from the GDB Chemical Space»
Jacopo Scarfiello, University of Turin
«Radical cascade sulfonylation/cyclization of benzimidazole derivatives with sulfinates induced by visible light»
Nikolai Shcherbakov, ETH Zurich
«Diastereoselective Synthesis of cis-Substituted Cyclic Ethers via Borane-catalyzed Reductive Cyclization of Diketones»
Poster Presentations
[01] Matheus A. Meirelles, University of Bern
«Synthetic Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharide for Structural Studies of Alg6»
[02] Giulia Baldoni, University of Bern
«Synthesis of GDB Derived Bicyclic Diamines as Scaffolds for Medicinal Chemistry»
[03] Jacopo Bucchioni, University of Bern
«Novel Oncocin–Peptoid Hybrids Show Potent Antibacterial Activity Against Multidrug-Resistant A. baumannii»
[04] Morgane Delattre, EPFL Lausanne
«Single H-Bond Donor Organocatalytic Enantioselective Pictet-Spengler Reaction of α-Diketones: Development and Application to Facile Access to Natural Product Analogues»
[05] Maël Djaïd, University of Fribourg
«Self-immolative and traceless linker for amino acids»
[06] Mirko Duvnjak, University of Zagreb
«Total Synthesis of (+)-Penicyclone A and Bioactivity Assessment of Intermediate Compounds»
[07] Agshin Garayev, Auburn University
«Blue Light Enabled C—C Bond Cleavage in Heteroarene Dimers. Dearomative Alkylation Heteroarenium Salts»
[08] Vincent Goëlo, EPFL Lausanne
«Divergent Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)-Ajmalicine, (+)-Mayumbine, and (−)-Roxburghine C»
[09] Pawel Huninik, Adam Mickiewicz University
«α-Selective Hydroboration of Alkynoate Esters Catalyzed by Ionic Liquids»
[10] Gaël Jarjoura, University of Fribourg
«Mechanistic Studies on Photochemical reactions : Can the Hammond Postulate be Applied to the meta Effect»
[11] Aleksandr Kazantsev, University of Geneva
«Impact of Diazo Concentration on Oxonium Ylide Based [3+n +3+n] Macrocyclizations»
[12] Barbara Krupa, Adam Mickiewicz University
«Organocatalytic hydroboration of imines, nitriles, and amides using choline-based ionic liquids»
[13] Mengsi Lu, University of Freiburg
«Scalable and Cost-effective Synthesis of Inositol Heptakisphosphate (IP7)»
[14] Rémy Mariaux, University of Fribourg
«Optimizing Aldol Reactions via Mechanochemistry: Study the potential of Dyno-Mill Technology»
[15] Caterina Monti, University of Geneva
«Synthesis and Properties of Cationic and Neutral Radical Diaza[4]helicenes as Components of Supramolecular Polymers»
[16] Austia Puckett, University of Bern
«Synthesis of novel polycyclic diamine scaffolds derived from tropinone»
[17] Nicolas Rosa de Sousa, University of Fribourg
«Further Investigations on Excited State Potential Energy Surfaces: Can the Hammond Postulate be Applied to Photochemical Reactions?»
[18] Sheetal Sheetal, University of Geneva
«Atropisomerism and Conformational Dynamics in Dioxa[6]helicene Enamine Constructs with Near-Infrared Absorption and Emission»
[19] Kinga Stefanowska, Adam Mickiewicz University
«Synthesis of new organosilicon building blocks with conjugated C-C bonds via hydrosilylation of buta-1,3-diynes»
[20] Aleksandra Szymańska, Adam Mickiewicz University
«Simple manganese complexes as efficient catalysts of ketone hydroboration»
[21] Linh Tong, Aalto University
«Total synthesis of racemic alkaloids»
[22] Tomasz Sokolnicki, Adam Mickiewicz University
«Functionalization of diboryl(silyl)ethenes towards new metalloid-substituted olefins»
[23] David Dejoz, University of Fribourg
«Designing Low-Valent Cobalt Complexes for Catalytic Applications»
[24] Xinyi Liu, University of Bern
«Azulene-incorporated 1,3,6,8-Tetraazapyrene derivatives for Optical pH Sensors»